Sept. 20-22, Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Andrew Lih is a new media and technology journalist, and associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism where he directs the new media program. He is the author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world’s greatest encyclopedia, (Hyperion 2009, Aurum UK 2009) and is a noted expert on online collaboration and journalism. In the 1990s, he served as a software engineer for AT&T Bell Laboratories and was a principal/founder of Mediabridge Infosystems, creator of the first online city guide for New York City (www.ny.com). He holds a bachelors and masters degree in computer science from Columbia University, where he also helped start the new media program at the Graduate School of Journalism in 1995. His multimedia reporting and photography of China and the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics has appeared in the Wall Street Journal newspaper and web site.